Transit App launches on Android for all your public transportation needs

Real-time routing available in 43 major cities across the United States

Transit App has gotten quite a reputation with the iOS folks. Now, the Google Maps alternative for public transportation is also available for Android. The app works in 43 major cities including New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, and Philadelphia.

It offers real-time public transit schedules, a multi-modal trip planner showing the four fastest ways to your destination, saves frequently used routes as favorites, and promises always up-to-date data.

Of course, this is a new release, and there are still some kinks to work out. I could only get "out of range" errors when trying to navigate around town in Boston using my Nexus 4, despite it being listed as an officially supported city. My route from JFK to John's Pizza on Bleaker St. worked great, though. Check it out for yourself with the Play Store link up top.

Reader comments

Transit App launches on Android for all your public transportation needs

Wish it listed cities in alphabetical order. Had to read through them all only to find out my city was not one of them. I know, what a pain eh? Hope they add more cities. I'm sure my city is in top 20 in the U.S.

"Of course, this is a new release, and there are still some kinks to work out." Yeah, you could say that. Completely unusable on my N4, can't find my location and trying to route between two addresses doesn't work either. Also crashes every time I try to access settings. Looks promising though so I'll keep it around in hopes that they update it soon.

Transit lets you quickly find departure times for routes around you, whereas Google Maps is mainly a trip planner. When you're going somewhere new, a trip planner is great, but for the rest of the time it's in our opinion nothing short of overkill.

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